As the calendar turns to a new year, the tradition of setting resolutions often feels like a ritualistic dance we engage in, only to find ourselves stepping on the same old toes. It’s a familiar story: setting high intentions but ending up with little to show as life continues its usual rhythm. But what if we stop making New Years Resolutions and make New Years Solutions instead? New Year’s solutions” is a shift from hopeful wishing to actionable, sustainable change.
There are Pitfall to making New Years Resolutions.
New Year’s resolutions are notorious for being ambitious yet vague, for having good intentions and yielding unfilfilled outcomes. We resolve to “lose weight,” “read more,” or “spend less,” but these broad declarations lack the concrete structure necessary for transformative change. Intentions may be noble, but without a strategic approach, they are like throwing seeds to the wind.
From Resolution to Solution: The Paradigm Shift
The essence of a New Year’s solution lies not in what we want to change, but in how we plan to change it. Solutions demand specificity, a clear path of action, and measurable outcomes that don’t fade out as January progresses. This shift must be made at a physiological and psychological level for those daily habits to evolve into a way of life for long-term success.
Solution-Focused EMDR: Cementing New Habits
Solution-Focused EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a technique that helps align the left and right hemispheres of the brain, enabling a more holistic approach to goal setting and problem-solving. By reprocessing resistance and negative beliefs, it aids in firmly establishing new, healthier patterns. EMDR has more clinical trials supporting it than any other therapy. It is used to effectively and efficiently process traumatic events, however Solution Focused EMDR works on future events. It has huge benefits when it comes to creating behaviour change and working on future goals. It assists with problem solving in the same way as EMDR by engaging the two hemispheres of the brain, activating the prefrontal cortex, the rational brain. It works by desensitising fear, procrastination and a host of other negative beliefs and subconscious patterns that prevent change.
Self Administered Solution Focused EMDR
Self Administered Solution Focused EMDR is a part of a three pronged approach we use in our coaching system that uses the very same evidence based principles as EMDR. We train clients to become their own personal life coach using self-administered Solution Focused EMDR. This is a very efficient way to change habits and behaviours or make big decisions.
Our Training
This system offers a step by step process with guided training that includes face to face sessions, equipment, simple easy to use protocols, cheat sheets videos & audios. Solution Focused EMDR allows you to lock in any new habit at home at will. Life Coaching is expensive and when you have all the tools you need at hand to keep you on track you will be able to use the evidence based tools that most everyday Life Coaches don’t even have knowledge of.
Embracing Change
New Year Resolutions become Yearly Solutions when you have a coaching formula that you can rely on through out the year to keep you on track with every goal and plan you make.
As we step into the New Year, we have the opportunity to focus from fleeting resolutions to tangible solutions. It’s about small, sustainable changes that lead to lasting transformation.
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And if you would just like to start the New Year with a clear focus here is a New Years Activation to get you on your path. Happy New Year!! Enjoy!
